Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-06-09

decoration of the graves, all repaired to
the school house for shelter, and Hon.
Robt. Glenn called the house to order.
Song by the choir; Mrs. Annie Gulick
presiding at the organ. Remarks by
Hon. Robt. Glenn. Song by the choir.
Mrs. Alice Hodge offered the following
tribute to Wyalusing's dead heroes.
In this beautiful land of ours
In this beautiful month of May,
In this lovely month Of flowers,
Our people come to-day
to strew choicest garlands and wreaths
of natures brightest beauties over the
graves of our honored and loved soldier
boys, whose lives il cost, to save our
country which we now enjoy.
Our soldier boys! of 81, 81, 63 and "a;
four long, long years of bloody war; and
oh! how long those years seemed to drag
away. Why remember, in my girlish
years, of wondering and thinking when,
if ever, will this cruel war end.
To-day methinks it very BETTING to
bring before our minds more wildly the
names of Wyalusing's sons who,
'In lonely spots by the way were laid,
Or in cotton field where the camp was made,
Some in long low ridges that dumbly tell
Where the fight was tiercest and hundreds fell.
Or disease in many direful shape.
Slew our boys who from the fight made
'scape"
Uppermost in my thoughts ever comes
my pale slender blue-eyed schoolmate of
my very early years, Allan J. Barnes;
how well do l remember him as he
proudly marched away with Co. D.,
33rd Reg. Ere eight months rolled
away, Allan filled soldiers grave at
Memphis, Tenn, near Mississippi's
rolling tide. Again comes to my mind
Matt. Lifford, as his friends familliary
called him; also of Co. D., 33rd Reg.
and Horatio Palmer, of Co. c., End Wis.
Cavalry; both sleep in Southern lands,
but live in the memory of Northern
friends. Delavan Gulick, of Co. c., End
Wis. Cavalry went forward early in the
great struggle" and fell victim to
disease. He too sleeps the soldiers sleep,
in q grave near the banks of Mississippi's
waters, near Helena, Ark. BY the death
of these three soldiers, seven little children
met the irreparable loss of father.
"How dependence weighed on these dropping
And these homesick men should ne'er again
See the homes they left when their hopes beat
high"
Sam'l Pitzer, of Co. c., 43rd Reg,
another of our esteemed citizens, an
swered his country's call, and lived to
come home to die with his family and
friends. He.rests in the cemetery near
the Red school house on Blake's Prairie
Dennis Lard and Jonah Lard, of COD,
33rd Reg, boys, both of whom are re-
membercd for their kindly manners to
all, found Southern grave.
Tommie Harville, of Co. c., 43rd
Reg, was shot and instantly killed, near
Nashville, Tenn. Granville Johnson.
of Co. A., 31st Reg, fell MORALLY
wounded while in an engagement at
Bentonville, n. G.
They sleep in one common grave,
Unmarked, save when the leaden cones as
they iercely flew,
Carved the epitaphs of the men they slew"
David Shrake, of Co 9Th Reg,
came home to die, and lived only short
week; he was laid to rest in the cemetery
one mile west of here
Levi Mcintosh, of Co. c., End Wis.
Cav, young man of promise, babe
good by to wife and children and went
forth to battle for his country-soon is
victim to dread Southern disease,
starts for home but falls by the way and
lies near Cairo, Ill.
Lucius Suffer, of Co. d., 33rd Reg,
German, not long from the Father
land SO priced the freedom of his
adopted country that his life was another
offering ON the great alter.
| Adj. Griffin, of Co. - 9Th Reg.
went early in the war and lies some
where in the Sunny South.
Joseph Flint, Sen, of Co. d., 33rd
Reg, man of sterling qualities, went
forth, only to fall too soon, and lies in
grave. far, far from his native home.
Joseph Flint, Jr. and Wellington For
shay. both of Co. - 9Th Reg, men
whose names we are yet familiar with,
went forth to meet the fate of capture
and death by disease and starvation in
those prison pens of Libby and "Belle
Isle"
| "Andthose prison pens oh how poor and weak
Are the words we write and the words we speak
| To relate the story so dark and long
| OF unmeasured misery deep, foul wrongl
Let us draw the VEIL for may not brook
! For those deep. dark horrors a longer look,
For the Nations life when their graves were
made"
| Earl Cranston, Co. D., 33rd Reg,
another of Wyalusing's good true boys,
young, hopeful, full of life and buoyancy,
offers his young life to his country, and
to-day he sleeps in Sunny Clime,''
| Where wild birds linger to MARBLE his praise,
| At the close OF long bright summer days.
Out yonder, where marble shafts mark
the spots, lie Abner Larrabee and
George Glenn. of Co. c., 4Srd Reg, the
only two of Wyalusing's proud quota of
the death roll, at whose graves we are
permitted to bring our flower offerings
to-day. George was spared few short
years with us after peace had robed
our land with happiness and prosperity,
but hardships and privations of soldiers
| life had Slapped the strength and vitality
of manhood and only too soon was he
called
"By the last reveille where soldiers elate
At noon in yalors martial might
The sunset brought celestial light
The Tattoo best at Heavens gate;
Sleep, brothers in the laureled buel
Rest. sleeper in the shrouded gray.
Columbia grieves for all to-day
On blue and gray falls Heavens dew"
After remarks by several others, the
choir sang'.We Shall Reach the Summer
land some Sweet Dav By and Bv.n